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The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made their living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons.


George Orwell


#false-hope #lottery #manipulation #men

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.


Roger Jones


#mathematics #statistics #mathematics

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.


Queen Victoria


#doubtful #far #happiness #i #i think

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.


Kat Dennings


#commercial #first #get #hate #i

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.


Bill Watterson


#getting #inch #like #lottery #snow

I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.


Jack Whittaker


#costs #i #lottery #won

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.


Tom Hanks


#almost #along #came #college #go

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.


Jane D. Hull


#billion #efficiently #lottery #over #raised

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.


Doug Coupland


#lottery #tickets

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.


Fran Lebowitz


#chances #done #i #identical #lottery






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